The Foundation intends to hold events, offline and online, providing a platform for policymakers and experts to tease out in depth these core civilizational beliefs, and see how they can provide a deep historical base for the future rise of India as a partner of world nations in the construction of a better world. It also intends to bring to the intelligent reader a series of books aiming at constructing an alternative framework for understanding India – thus plugging the gaps that remain because of the prevailing commonsense about India in mainstream academia and media within the country and abroad.
In sync with our civilizational vision of unity in diversity, the Foundation will address both larger issues like the faulty framing of India in the western academia and media, and micro issues like, say, the possibilities the heritage of Indian tribes offers for the development of the tribes themselves, their core regions in the country, and the nation at large. It will look at conservatism anew in India, bringing out its contributions that were largely ignored by a left-leaning academia in the past several decades. It will look at the issues of caste and the need for social mobility anew. It will also aim at bringing forth multiple other issues largely untouched till now – like the untold stories of Indian towns that are waiting to burst forth as major centres of economic activity but have not been much talked about yet. It will break with the present and largely irrelevant ideological frames to understand an India that retains its traditions of antiquity but reformulates them to adapt harmoniously to the wider world.
The Foundation will wed India’s rich past with its rise as a world player – connecting the dots to tell the fascinating story of the rise of an ancient civilization for people witnessing the rise to understand and engage with.